microcephalus, Bothrocarichthys Schmidt [P. Yu.] 1938:653 [Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS), Leningrad v. 19 (no. 8) [1938]; ref. 3943] West coast of Kamchatka, Russia, 58°21'N, 153°30'E, Okhotsk Sea, depth 70-190 meters. Syntypes: (5) ZIN 24847 (2, now 1), 31170 (1). Thpe catalog: Balushkin et al. 2011:974 [ref. 32449], Balushkin et al. 2012:161 [ref. 33667]. Appear first as name only in Schmidt in Taranetz 1937. •Valid as Bothrocarichthys microcephalus Schmidt 1938 -- (Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:34 [ref. 25650], Fedorov et al. 2003:110 [ref. 27579], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:835 [ref. 38925]). •Valid as Bothrocarina microcephala (Schmidt 1938) -- (Toyoshima in Amaoka et al. 1983:275, 334 [ref. 8379], Toyoshima in Masuda et al. 1984:308 [ref. 6441], Anderson 1994:116 [ref. 21438], Shinohara et al. 1996:180 [ref. 26605], Nakabo 2000:1041 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1041 [ref. 26193], Anderson & Fedorov 2004:11 [ref. 27603], Balushkin et al. 2011:974 [ref. 32449], Parin et al. 2014:386 [ref. 33547], Tohkairin et al. 2015:12 [ref. 35331]). Current status: Valid as Bothrocarina microcephala (Schmidt 1938). Zoarcidae: Lycodinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific. Habitat: marine.